RESP

Funded by Roche and the Greenville Hospital System, the Research Exchange Scholars Program is an international expansion of GSSM’s nationally recognized Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI).

Now proudly in its second year, RESP sent three GSSM students to Germany to conduct scientific research during the months of June and July. In exchange, GSSM will welcome three German students from Johanna Wittum Schule, a biotech high school, to our campus for seven weeks beginning in August. In addition, these students will conduct scientific research at the University of South Carolina.
 

RESP is an international collaborative among:

  • GSSM Foundation
  • Johanna Wittum Schule in Pforzheim, Germany, a high school specializing in biotechnology education
  • F. Hoffman-La Roche, Ltd., a leading, research-focused, Swiss pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland; and its affiliates Roche Carolina, Inc., in Florence, SC, and Roche Diagnostics GmbH in Mannheim, Germany
  • Greenville Hospital System

Academic partners include the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, Germany (DKFZ) and the University of South Carolina.

The program is supported by Roche, continuing as the founding funder, and by the Greenville Hospital System, joining as a sponsor this year.  During the research internships the three GSSM rising seniors live with local host families in Germany and conduct college-level research in areas including applied microbiology, botany and cyto- and neurophysiology.

In exchange the three students from Johanna Wittum Schule travel to South Carolina, where they reside on GSSM’s campus and work as research interns alongside USC professors whose projects cover a broad spectrum of topics in cell and molecular biology. 


For more information:
Randall M. La Cross
Vice President of Outreach and Research
843-383-3916